スウェーデン

Japanese

Alternative spelling
瑞典 (obsolete)

スウェーデン on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from English Sweden.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] One would expect *スウィーデン (Suwīden) instead, but the rendering of the ⟨e⟩ as /eː/ here is a spelling pronunciation. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is this form somehow influenced by German Schweden?”)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) スウェーデン [sùwéꜜèdèǹ] (Nakadaka – [2])^[5]
IPA^(key): [sɨβ̞e̞ːdẽ̞ɴ]

Proper noun

スウェーデン • (Suwēden)

Sweden (a country in Scandinavia in Northern Europe)
- 2015 March 6, Åsa Ekström, “自己紹介 [Self-Introduction]”, in 北欧女子オーサが見つけた日本の不思議 [Nordic Girl Åsa discovers the Mysteries of Japan] (北欧女子オーサ; 1) (fiction), Tokyo: Media Factory, page 2:
  
  スウェーデンのストックホルム出(しゅっ)身(しん)です
  Suwēden no Sutokkuhorumu shusshin desu
  I come from Stockholm, Sweden

Derived terms

スウェーデン語(ご) (Suwēden-go, “Swedish language”)
スウェーデン人(じん) (Suwēden-jin, “Swede”)
スウェーデン蕪(かぶ) (Suwēden kabu, “Swedish turnip”)
スウェーデン王(おう)国(こく) (Suwēden Ōkoku, “Kingdom of Sweden”)
スウェーデンリレー (Suwēden rirē, “Swedish relay”)

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[1] Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[2] Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[3] Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 [Kōjien] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

[4] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[SMK5-5] Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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